[ModelBreaker]

This study is a little over a year old, and doesn't include 2005 or 2006 data. But it is something to keep in mind the next time a certain shrill politician yells "I want to take those profits, and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund!" Politicians are ALREADY taking more from the oil companies than they make in U.S. profits.

Politicians regard capitalism as a cash cow to be milked for goodies.

[Let's Roll]

I guess our commie pols expect the oil companies to also give back their profits - work for nothing.

Before this is over the oil companies will be lucky if the pols think they should even be allowed to break even.